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Recent reviews

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  Hundreds of Beavers 2022

  ★★★★ Watched 17 Mar 2025

  My dad always refers to seeing 𝘚𝘱𝘺 starring Melissa McCarthy as one of the great filmgoing experiences of his life because of what he (somewhat erroneously) remembers as people literally "rofling" in response to the espionage hijinks (let's say the DVD copy he bought at Target shortly thereafter is showing its wear at this point)—audience reaction to this last night was somewhere in the same vicinity. Haven't laughed this hard at (and felt so much professional jealousy about) a new film in quite some time. Genuine inventive fun (and all the other superlatives ppl on this app have been saying).

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  The Gorge 2025

  ★★ Watched 16 Mar 2025

  when you just want bae to read you his romantic poetry but he’s obsessed with finding out the secret of the hollow men

Popular reviews

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  Barbie as Rapunzel 2002

  ★★★★★ Watched 12 Nov 2020 3

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  Dying 1976

  ★★★★ Watched 25 Jan 2025

  Given the subject matter here you may not be surprised I spent much of the runtime close to tears or actively weeping—but I’ve never had an experience where that continued during the Q+A after the film, where 97 year-old Michael Roemer framed his thoughts for us as confession, remarking on the emotional and interpersonal toll the filming of this work took on him. One of the individuals interviewed here, a woman named Harriett, says some pretty unpleasant things during her…